Small Scale Military Headquarters

***** From now on I'll be posting all of my weathering/custom work into this topic to avoid crowding up the C&M section. I think it's a good idea that you guys have done, so I shall follow suit. ******

-Dirty and dusty Stug, and muddy Firefly-

Dirtied up the Stug a bit, and made the Firefly mud worse, as in better. It wasn't up in the running gear, just on the hull, and I fixed it. All in and behind everything.















You can't see the total mud paint behind the gear, it's too dark, but yeah, I got that too.

Looks great!

You also should add some blotches of mud around the tank for even more realism. Use modeling clay or other material to make the clumps of mud.

Both look great.

Good job on the mud. Adds a lot of realism to them.

Mark

Thanks guys, and Mark, thanks for that Stug to begin with!

De nada dude!

My dad picked up two 21st armor kits from Wal-Mart on clearance for me, the Okinawa M-24 and the regular OD Sherman. I've already got them together and I'm just about to do some work on them. I'll post pics when I'm done.

Dusty, dirty King Tiger, scratched up camoflauged Wirbelwind, and filthy Ju-87. (Old ones, but I felt I'd archive them here)

Dieter Von Panzerfaust

Weathered Zero and beat up Fw-190D-9 (older stuff, again)

Yo Alloy...what's up with that Wirbelwind..?? It looks like a "Chia Pet" Just kidding man...it looks great, I love it.

Great looking weathering on those planes!

Great job on the weathering You've made the 21c tanks look more like their FOV Enthusiast counterparts

I like the Zero.

Nice job!

They look great.

Thanks guys! When the ground dries up I plan on setting up a small 1/18 diorama outside, and I'll have some pics up. I weathered my Sherman and it turned out okay, I have a couple of spots where I had some accidents and therefore it looks better in natural and low light.

Today's work, hours of weathering and grime washing out of boredom. I got a lot done though, and I'm quite pleased. Here's 40 pictures...

(SORRY)



Panzer III Ausf. L DAK, moderate black wash. Completely altered it's skin tone from what I remember.













M4A3 Sherman, mudded, chipped, dusted, and washed twice lightly with black.









Flakpanzer IV Wirbelwind, chipped (previously) and washed heavily with black, although it's hard to tell.









M24 Chaffee, grimed and washed moderately with black.













Panzer 38(t), washed lightly with black, then over-washed with a 60-40 mix of rust and brown. Created a nice tone to it, I like it a lot better than the plain gray. Also appears as if it's rusted a little, but very realistically. I'll post a larger close up of the rust in another post.















Marder IIIM, washed lightly with black, grimed with black, over-washed with a mix of brown, black and thinner.











Marder III Sdkfz. 139, washed moderatly with black, over-washed with rust, black and brown and then mudded with a mix of rust and brown.















That's it for today, spent a lot of time on these! Whew! Glad to get 'em up here.

I've also bought a Tamiya 1:35 Pak-40 kit. Started on it tonight. Here's the close-up of the rust effect I somehow pulled off:

Nice work alloy skull! They look excellent.

Thanks Jagdpanther!

I finished my 1:35 Tamiya Pak-40 today. I've still got the figures to do, but here's pics of the finished product, along with a 21c Sdkfz. 251. I messed up a few things along the way, since I haven't finished a kit since I was about 9 or 10.

What exactly did I screw up? Well, the gun doesn't slide. I don't know if glue got into it or what, but it doesn't slide anymore. It did before I put on the shield. The shield is slightly crooked, and the wheels don't roll because when I tried to carefully glue the inner rims, some excess glue ruined that. Everything else works, and I'm glad. It doesn't matter much anyway because I modeled it to be towed.

I was going to go just plain gray, but I white washed it. Then I said what the hell and white washed my Sdkfz. 251 that will be towing it. The next step is to create some sort of link between the Hanomag and the the little hole for a trailer hitch on the Pak-40.

They both turned out really nice, in my opinion, and I learned a few things as well. Tell me what you think, seeing as this is my first finished kit in almost 10 years. I kind of got a bug, and I think I might be doing more.

I also don't know much about Pak-40s, is it really small? Or is it decently sized? The figures that came with it look really close to my 21c guys. I just started painting them, although I think I'm going to make them a Marder crew, and buy seperate winter artillery crewman.

Opinions?


Finished gun and shield.


97% complete, I had lost a small part in the carpet and let it rest for the night. You can also see the Hanomag before whitewash.


Whitewashed Hanomag and the Pak-40 "in-tow" (still need to come up with a way)


I've seen a few pictures where the silly crews of armored vehicles left the interior un-white washed, and I felt I'd model that.






The Pak-40 in all it's winter glory.


Close-up of the shield.


The gun, which is stuck, which technically isn't in position for towing, but I'm okay with it.


The finished ensemble.

What do you guys think? Size-wise and the way the white wash looks, as well as how everything came together in the kit. Let me know. I really got into this kit and I was having a rough night with things until I sat down and got to work on this. I think I have a new way to turn anger/frustration into art.

That 1:32 Huey kit that's sitting at Hobby Lobby... yeah, you... Next time.

Here's a dio I did earlier today. It's a summertime Eastern front anti-tank battery, dug into a ravine and covered with local brush waiting in ambush. There's a few SS soldiers detached to keep watch on things, as well as to make sure nothing sneaks up on this lone Hanomag.

I cropped the pictures to get house parts out, that's why they're different sizes. The last picture, I simulated ballpoint pen on the "photograph" as if a child had drawn on it.

Awesome dio AlloySkull